Super Smash Bros. Melee 20th Anniversary Tribute

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Happy 20th Anniversary to my favorite game of all time, Super Smash Bros. Melee. I hope this tribute video helps share what I love about the game. From its conception, to its reveal, release, and community adoption, Melee's evolution has been a magnificent spectacle to behold. #Melee20th #SSBM #SSBM20th
"Smash Bros. Melee/Brawl Epic Remix" music by AJ DiSpirito: • Smash Bros. Melee/Braw...
Outro Music Credit: "Resting Place" by Garrett Williamson • Resting Place

[@weegeepie13]

So amazing. Hungrybox would shed a tear.

[@davidvkimball]

Thank you!

[@fangzgaming5510]

I shed a tear myself

[@StarmisYT]

From doing local tournaments in 2000s to now playing online and mastering techniques we never expect to master till 20XX shows how far we all came as a community. And this reminds us the memories of Melee.

[@TotiTotiToti]

You made the music fit it so well!! Amazing job, I love it so much!

[@davidvkimball]

Thanks, Toti!! AJ DiSpirito made such an outstanding piece of music to work with!

[@MonteRicard]

Crazy to think it's been 20 years. Here's to one of the best games of all time, through both what it was to what it has become!

[@davidvkimball]

Hazzuh

[@SSB_Seal]

THIS WAS SO GOOD!!! You covered so many of the things that make the game and community as great as it is. Here's to 20 more years!

[@davidvkimball]

Thank you so much!!

[@uzer141]

This is awesome! Melee was my favorite game growing up. Endless hours with my brother and my childhood friends! Thanks for making this

[@AJDiSpirito]

This is an awesome tribute!!! Thanks for using my song, this is exactly the kind of thing I made it for :D

[@davidvkimball]

That makes me so happy. I edited the piece a bit to fit, hope you don't mind. I'm am such a huge fan of your work, and I hope you finish Sudden Death someday.

[@chuganoga1908]

Seeing all your videos really helped me reminisce over this game all these years later. I still remember renting this game around the time of its launch and staying up way past me and my brothers bed time just playing the hell outta this game. I still remember freaking out about the fact that I could play bowser in smash bros since We only ever seen him in super Mario 64 and Mario party as non playable. I loved everything about melee and sure ultimate has all these characters and stages but melee just has something about it that just makes it so unique and I’d like to say it’s nostalgia but it just really is an amazing game. It incapsulated an era we were transitioning from which was the 64 era which they used heavy amounts of representation and designs from. I grew up with the 64 so playing it I guess just feels like I’m revisiting a package of N64 memories all packed into one amazing game. Thank you for this man truly.

[@davidvkimball]

Well freaking said!! Thanks for sharing this. 😊

[@chuganoga1908]

@@davidvkimball Thank you for your content buddy!

[@octooo.]

Wow, this was amazing.
for only a 2 minute video, i expected this to be lower quality but as it turns out, i was wrong.

[@davidvkimball]

Thank you, I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

[@charlesw7397]

Here's to another 20 ❤️

[@davidvkimball]

+1

[@francisnguyen6349]

Awesome job for 20 years in Super Smash Bros. Melee!

[@davidvkimball]

Thanks!

[@chrisdock8804]

This was great. Long live ssbm. Also bless you Fizzi you absolute maniac.

[@davidvkimball]

Hear, hear!

[@deep_cuts2019]

This video is such an amazing tribute to the lifespan of melee thus far! I love it!

[@davidvkimball]

Thank you!!

[@bubbles46853-ep9if]

I was expecting the music go turn into "You Say Run"!

[@Green_Phosphorus]

Beautiful

[@davidvkimball]

Thank you!

[@ElModistoDeConsolasRetro]

Thats a nice tribute, well done. Like!

[@davidvkimball]

Thank you very much!

[@cyfer115]

David V Kimball back at it again 🤩

[@davidvkimball]

Thanks, Jesse. 😊

[@djcrisp2177]

Happy 20th Anniversary Melee 🎉🎊🎆

[@davidvkimball]

😊

[@brianmercerjr2282]

Awesome

[@davidvkimball]

Thanks, Brian!

[@brianmercerjr2282]

@@davidvkimball your welcome

[@connorplays6263]

I love this game, and if I remember correctly, I think this was my first fighting game

[@nightstar_bcd]

This vid needs more attention o_o so good

[@davidvkimball]

Thanks!!

[@Novorious]

Melee lives on forever.

[@davidvkimball]

#MeleeForever

[@johanguzman2706]

This is such an amazing tribute! :D Would you do this to Smash Ultimate when its 2023 (5th anniversary around that time) as well? and i think cgi cutscenes for characters from their games (including Pokemon ''Anime'') would work to introduce characters in that tribute as well :)

[@davidvkimball]

Thank you! I don't think I will but I won't rule it out 100%. ☺️ I appreciate your comment.

[@ricketyram3142]

Simply stunning.
This old-school retiree thanks you!
:]

[@davidvkimball]

Thank you very much!!

[@Eichro]

i'm just happy somebody acknowledged aj dispirito's great remixes

[@davidvkimball]

I found him the other day and was absolutely blown away. I can say with certainty that discovering his Melee/Brawl track single-handedly inspired me to make this video.

[@DerpsGW]

Great tribute, nice job.

[@davidvkimball]

Thank you!

[@knucklesabtuberabrahamXD]

Happy 20th anniversary melee

[@davidvkimball]

Indeed!

[@bennyp915]

so beautiful

[@davidvkimball]

Thank you!

[@shardofkingdoms9816]

I love this game man

[@davidvkimball]

Same!

[@FireShaddow]

Fantastic, a great ode to a great game

[@davidvkimball]

Thanks dude! 😊

[@jameswilliams3399]

Such an incredible game. Ken there's old school..

[@davidvkimball]

I wanted to try and capture the early and currently competitive scene too!

[@jameswilliams3399]

@@davidvkimball Appreciate that! It's all in the history right? Great video my friend.

[@davidvkimball]

@@jameswilliams3399 that's right! And thank you very much!

[@Micha-Hil]

1:22 there's no audio and yet i can hear it like it was yesterday

[@davidvkimball]

huh?

[@randyrz5214]

"We made that".

[@davidvkimball]

😊

[@theabbeast]

To Melee!! 🍻

[@davidvkimball]

🥂

[@JLEC_Lopez]

I still play this game! It's been 20 years man! One funny thing is that, i started streaming twitch for the first time and i am playing Smash Melee. But no one is viewing my stream LOL

[@davidvkimball]

That happens when you're new haha!

[@Fain255]

Cool AF

[@davidvkimball]

Thank you!!

[@StarzGecko]

MELEE FOREVER!!!!

[@davidvkimball]

#MeleeForever

[@RetroRivera]

M E L E E. F O R E V E R.

[@davidvkimball]

[@yap_temple]

man DE was so good

[@davidvkimball]

Domino Effect was great!!

[@MaxJacks]

wicked!!!

[@davidvkimball]

Thank you!

[@inukoinu.k9]

long live melee

[@davidvkimball]

#MeleeForever

[@sirkingpinmonroe4439]

Fantastic ❤❤

[@FilipinoSmosh]

this tribute is so cool

[@davidvkimball]

Thank you!

[@FilipinoSmosh]

@@davidvkimball np

[@obx1bag]

Great game. I'm an old head, was in 9th grade when the game came out, gonna get back into it now

[@davidvkimball]

Amazing. I think I was 9 years old. Please do!

[@BoyOHBoy123]

woag1!!

[@davidvkimball]

:)

[@magicred21]

Is there a smash summit coming up in December? I want play against players in person. I want to join a tournament as a new comer. Is there a link?

[@yumihere2848]

PLEASE MAKE SMTH LIKE THIS DEDICATED TO THE EVOLUTUON OF COMP SMASH ID PAY TO SEE IT

[@davidvkimball]

Haha, I'm definitely open to it!

[@yumihere2848]

@@davidvkimball the hype upbeat music and just some small clips made this great!!! Its like a mini bitesized metagame/smash doc

[@davidvkimball]

@@yumihere2848 Thank you! Yeah I was definitely going for encapsulating Melee's 20th years in a 2 minute video haha, it was quite the undertaking. I wanted to include details about the game itself and putting it around the characters made the most sense. Then I focused on the top players and then the post-dark ages stuff too with Slippi and all that.

[@MeatKisser]

SSBM anime intro

[@davidvkimball]

truuu

[@meannush7552]

can you remove the scenes featuring leffen?

[@davidvkimball]

No

[@antagonizingusername]

God, do those renders look awkward.

[@davidvkimball]

🤔